Ed Luce: There Has Been No Sustained Effort to Get Putin to Agree to a Real Ceasefire, Which Is Why Rubio Is Talking About Walking Away

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LUCE: "And when, you know, Rubio says that they’re prepared to walk away from this, what he really means is, as David has just very adequately set out, is he’s preparing to pull the plug on Ukraine because there have been no sustained efforts to get Putin to agree to a real ceasefire. He breached -- has breached the one that’s about to end, which was just confined to energy infrastructure, as Rubio did mention on Palm Sunday, with some some really obscene breaches, obscene attacks on civilians during that period as well. So the idea that, you know, by implication, this is Europe and Ukraine, the ball is in their court, it’s completely wrong. The ball should be in Russia’s court. It should be Steve Witkoff going to Moscow and delivering -- reading the riot act to Putin. Instead, he’s going and sort of putting his hand on heart as if he’s pledging sort of the — pledging allegiance to Putin. It is an extraordinary asymmetric, one-sided, 87-day attempt at peace that really doesn’t amount to any serious attempt at peace. And I think that Dr. Brzezinski would not be alone in seeing this as a bad faith effort to end the war. And David’s right, the war needs to be ended, but this has been a bad faith effort to end the war. Putin is under no pressure from the Trump Administration to come to the table. There have been no credible threats. There have been no credible sticks offered to Putin, just carrots. And until that changes, there’s not going to be any any kind of credible peace process."